7 must-read novels books like There Are More Things by Yara Rodrigues Fowler

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There Are More Things

By: Yara Rodrigues Fowler

4.03

Format: 452 pages, Hardcover

Born to a well-known political family in Olinda, Brazil, Catarina grows up in the shadow of her dea…

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1. In Memoriam

By: Alice Winn

4.53

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during a time of war. It'… read more

Similar categories in Alice Winn's In Memoriam book and Yara Rodrigues Fowler's There Are More Things

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • queer
"It’s intimate."

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Call me Sidney,"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Where’s the rest of it?"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Do you believe in magic?"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

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2. There Are More Things

By: Yara Rodrigues Fowler

4.03

Format: 452 pages, Hardcover

Born to a well-known political family in Olinda, Brazil, Catarina grows up in the shadow of her dea… read more

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  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • british literature
  • brazil
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • queer
Cover of After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz

3. After Sappho

By: Selby Wynn Schwartz

3.51

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

What did we want? To begin with, we wanted what half the population had got by just being born. … read more

Similar categories in Selby Wynn Schwartz's After Sappho book and Yara Rodrigues Fowler's There Are More Things

  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • queer
"The death of a child makes a barbaric sound, even in print."

-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho

"We were going to be sappho, but how did Sappho begin to become herself? P.40"

-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho

"But some of us have always seen the modern world as a sea meant to drown us."

-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho

"There is always this risk, in life, that we have our parts in a tragedy and we do not know it."

-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho

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4. Enter Ghost

By: Isabella Hammad

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more

Similar categories in Isabella Hammad's Enter Ghost book and Yara Rodrigues Fowler's There Are More Things

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • novels
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5. I'm a Fan

By: Sheena Patel

3.32

Format: 207 pages, None

In I'm A Fan, a single speaker uses the story of their experience in a seemingly unequal, unfaithfu… read more

Similar categories in Sheena Patel's I'm a Fan book and Yara Rodrigues Fowler's There Are More Things

  • literary fiction
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"It is toxic. I am familiar"

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

"Happiness or safety. Or isn't that the same thing?"

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

"I never came with him. I never felt safe enough to."

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

"The world is made for couples. Even the unhappy ones."

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

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6. Ordinary Human Failings

By: Megan Nolan

3.78

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about thei… read more

Similar categories in Megan Nolan's Ordinary Human Failings book and Yara Rodrigues Fowler's There Are More Things

  • contemporary
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"She loved the feeling of doing something on her own, and doing it in a routine. It felt thrillingly adult and affirmed her most cherished hope, the hope that she might have an actual inner life of su…"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

"He had the sort of bland, agreeable, rosy face which could disappear into whatever context he wished it to. He was blond but not provocatively so. The naturally dull Kent accent could be clipped and …"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

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7. Diego Garcia

By: Natasha Soobramanien

3.89

Format: 278 pages, Paperback

Edinburgh, 2014: N. and L., two writer friends arrive from London, a city they believe killed L.'s … read more

Similar categories in Natasha Soobramanien's Diego Garcia book and Yara Rodrigues Fowler's There Are More Things

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • british literature
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8. Evenings and Weekends

By: Oisín McKenna

3.96

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a taut and profoundly moving debut that follows a cast … read more

Similar categories in Oisín McKenna's Evenings and Weekends book and Yara Rodrigues Fowler's There Are More Things

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • queer
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9. Rosewater

By: Liv Little

3.67

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Queenie and Such a Fun Age comes a deliciously gritty and strikingly bold debut novel a… read more

Similar categories in Liv Little's Rosewater book and Yara Rodrigues Fowler's There Are More Things

  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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10. Headshot

By: Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

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11. A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

By: Noreen Masud

4.20

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A surprising and lyrical journey—part memoir, part nature book—meditating on the meaning of "flatne… read more

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"We tell stories to make them visible. Or we tell stories so that we don’t have to look at them any longer."

-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

"Supposedly trauma transcends language and time, and is therefore untellable. Perhaps sometimes it does and is. But I think traumatized people do know how to tell their stories. What’s difficult is th…"

-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

"Supposedly, trauma transcends language and time, and is therefore untellable. Perhaps sometimes it does, and is. But I think traumatized people do know how to tell their stories. What’s difficult is …"

-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

"I was held captive by this unyielding, silent space, and I began to understand two things. The flatness wasn’t an absence - not in the way we might assume it is - but something strong and original an…"

-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

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12. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

Similar categories in Samantha Harvey's Orbital book and Yara Rodrigues Fowler's There Are More Things

  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

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13. Bellies

By: Nicola Dinan

4.07

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

I wore a dress on the night I first met Ming.It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out wit… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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14. Wandering Souls

By: Cecile Pin

4.15

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A luminous, boldly imagined debut novel about three Vietnamese siblings who seek refuge in the UK, … read more

Similar categories in Cecile Pin's Wandering Souls book and Yara Rodrigues Fowler's There Are More Things

  • contemporary
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We tell ourselves stories in order to heal."

-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls

"I didn't know that my culture had fashioned the shape of my mourning; I didn't know that my grief could be improper."

-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls

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15. Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies

By: Maddie Mortimer

3.98

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

This lyrical debut novel is at once a passionate coming-of-age story, a meditation on illness and d… read more

Similar categories in Maddie Mortimer's Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies book and Yara Rodrigues Fowler's There Are More Things

  • literary fiction
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"the best way to ruin a perfect moment is by letting it continue."

-Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies

"For we inherit the haunts of our mothers; we are left with the guests they let in."

-Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies

"It is history's only duty, Lia thought: ensuring daughters are brighter than their mothers."

-Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies

"Sometimes it takes a lifetime to receive the world in a language different to your own; to let the shape and taste and sense of a thing eclipse its own translation."

-Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies

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16. Small Worlds

By: Caleb Azumah Nelson

4.32

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating and expansive new novel about fathers and sons, faith and friendship from Caleb Azu… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Grief never ends, but we find a way to walk in the light someone has left behind, rather than living in pain's shadow."

-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds

"It's here, when I'm with her, I know that a world can be two people, occupying a space where we don't have to explain. Where we can feel beautiful. Where we might feel free."

-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds

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17. Fire Rush

By: Jacqueline Crooks

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Set amid the Jamaican diaspora in London at the dawn of 1980s, a mesmerizing story of love, loss, a… read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Crooks's Fire Rush book and Yara Rodrigues Fowler's There Are More Things

  • historical fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • british literature
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18. Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen

By: Rebecca May Johnson

3.75

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Cooking is thinking!The spatter of sauce in a pan, a cook's subtle deviation from a recipe, the car… read more

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"Mrs Beeton writes in anticipation of her absence."

-Rebecca May Johnson, Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen

"Cooking by the recipe a thousand times and more gives me this insight into language and its relation to living things."

-Rebecca May Johnson, Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen

"Cooking is the tool I use to draw close to other people, though closeness makes me anxious. Cooking is how I manage closeness."

-Rebecca May Johnson, Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen

"What I want for the people I cook for is for them to enjoy their own perversions at the table, to feel free to exhibit a lack of constraint."

-Rebecca May Johnson, Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen

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19. Im Prinzip ist alles okay

By: Yasmin Polat

4.13

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Miryam ist dreißig Jahre alt und vor einigen Monaten Mutter geworden. Auf der Party einer alten Bek… read more

Similar categories in Yasmin Polat's Im Prinzip ist alles okay book and Yara Rodrigues Fowler's There Are More Things

  • contemporary
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20. Losing the Plot

By: Derek Owusu

3.37

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

DEREK OWUSU NAMED GRANTA'S BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS 2023 LONGLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 20… read more

Similar categories in Derek Owusu's Losing the Plot book and Yara Rodrigues Fowler's There Are More Things

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. Private Rites

By: Julia Armfield

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more

Similar categories in Julia Armfield's Private Rites book and Yara Rodrigues Fowler's There Are More Things

  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"

-Julia Armfield, Private Rites

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